PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE 2020

Oatlands Primary School, are you up for the challenge?

We are very excited to announce that the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge is underway and Oatlands PS is joining in!

Oatlands staff want to inspire our students to read voraciously; building essential literacy skills and promoting a life-long love of books in the process. Each year, the Premier’s Reading Challenge is undertaken by thousands of avid readers across the state. The PRC is not a competition but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books. This year’s theme is “Reading: Everybody, Every Day.”

All of Oatlands Grade 4 – 6 students will take part in the PRC; recording and logging their own books using their Chromebook. In order to successfully complete the challenge, students in Years 3-6 need to read at least 15 books (10 Challenge Books and 5 Choice books). 

Our P – 3 students will be able to join in with parent approval, as parents will need to log books for the younger readers. For Prep-Grade 2 students, the challenge is to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents or teachers. This includes shared reading, listening and reading along with others. At least 20 of these books must be from the Challenge List. 

More than 12,000 books feature on the Premier’s Reading Challenge Book List and new titles are added each year. Children can read picture books, short stories, poems or non-fiction books in any language as part of the Challenge. Students can access books from our school library, local libraries or from their home collection. 

The closing date for this year’s challenge is September 4th but students can include all books which have been read since the beginning of the school year. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier. These will be presented to students in Term 4.

If you are a parent of a Grade Prep – 3 student, and you would like your child to undertake the Premier’s Reading Challenge, please contact their classroom teacher to obtain their User Name and Password. Details of how to log books on the Challenge website will also be provided. 

If you have any other questions about the Premier’s reading Challenge, please contact Tania Nicholas or Helen Connell at the school. 

HAPPY READING!